The first pairing of Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi is a nightmarishly bizarre pre-code terror treat! Detour director Edgar G. Ulmer helms The Black Cat, following a pair of newlyweds honeymooning in Hungary whose trip is cut short when they accompany a mysterious scientist (Lugosi) to a gothic castle, the horrific home of a Satan-worshipping priest (Karloff).
“Wildly expressionistic, the movie has nothing to do with the Poe story from which it takes its title and everything to do with Ulmer’s sense of the Nazi menace.” – J. Hoberman, Village Voice
“Sumptuously subversive… one of the very best horror movies Universal ever made.” – Tony Rayns, Time Out
